Holy crap - they actually indicted a cop? In NYC? He must really have done something to piss off his chain of command and/or the union for that to be allowed… 'cause that kind of thing just doesn’t happen.

Also, this is a good general reminder of why you might want to keep your phone set to automatically upload all new photos to the cloud. You might only have a few seconds before a cop takes it and smashes it, and you’ll really want that evidence to be somewhere safe.

Now, the fact that an officer was actually charged for falsifying a report concerning an arrest (accusing somebody whose camera didn’t have a flash mounted of totally, like, menacing him with the flash was a nice touch) is crazy rare. They don’t call what happens when an officer takes to the stand ‘testilying’ for nothing…